Minnesota is proud to be called the Land of 10,000 Lakes. In one afternoon, I spotted several of them without even leaving the county ( Read more... )

Having an open evening, I knew I'd be seeing a movie tonight. It had been a month between visits to the movie theater because of graduation parties and vacation. I made a stop at Guitar Center after work and then headed to Delano for food and film ( Read more... )

There are multiple ways to tell the same story. Take the driving "adventure" in my last entry. My original version sounds like it belongs in an installment of the SNL skit "The Californians." I should be able to make the same rant with less specificity about my location. And go ( Read more... )

I ran into some slow traffic this week. No, it wasn't due to the snowstorm on Thursday since I stayed home and enjoyed the snow day ( Read more... )

Flatbed semi trailers sometimes contain unusual cargo. Sometimes it is impossible to identify the load or I forget what I saw, but other loads are memorable ( Read more... )

My car almost looks normal now. With a quick trip to French Lake Auto Parts and $100 over Thanksgiving weekend, I got headlights and a grill--all used parts. The edges of the hood are raised a bit above the fender on each side. Compared to the hole allowing anyone to peer at my radiator, this is a great improvement. Now it just looks like ( Read more... )

Traffic was not flowing smoothly Wednesday night. I turned my gaze for a bit, and when I looked back, the vehicle in front of me was at a dead stop. I hit my brakes hard and squealed the tires in an attempt to avoid contact, but it was inevitable--crunch ( Read more... )

We've all seen a driver who uses the left side of a two-lane road as an ad hoc turn lane. Today, I experienced an extreme version. Montrose has a center turn lane on Hwy 12 throughout city limits. I was driving west as an eastbound vehicle stopped in my lane ( Read more... )

Ever since construction began in 2003 to prepare for a bypass road that relocated US-12 in Long Lake, I followed the project on MNDOT's website with great interest. The Super Two Highway design would improve traffic flow by limiting the number of at-grade crossings and keep large trucks out of downtown Long Lake. The theory behind this design is ( Read more... )

Time to go back in time....to December 2011. If you remember a story I started, I received the phone number of a Cokato girl in October when I was at the Millner Heritage Winery. At the end of that chapter, I had left a couple of voicemails but did not hear anything from her. I left a third voicemail on December 6. She replied with a text ( Read more... )